Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I should say, the teaching rates are for class teachers. Some of the very best head teachers (principals) can do $120,000 a year.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Interesting question. A teacher makes between $35 and $62 dependent on skills and experience (senior teachers are expected to have Master degrees in the UK). Cab Drivers do between $30 and $50k Professional Soccer players are rediculous, no one needs to earn as much as they do for something so stupid. They are on about $150,000 a week for the very best player in the country. << Way above what teachers make here. Really funny too, since we spend so much money on education here. We have also lowered our standards for education, and how we hire teachers. Really a shame too, since a lot of well qualified, and deticated teachers get pasted over so the politically correct way of hiring teachers can be met. I guess sports of all kinds is kind of ridiculous the world over. I'm a little surprised how low the taxi drivers are. If I'm not mistaken becoming a taxi driver in the UK is a very difficult task. I believe they go through a rigorous test, and are some of the most top quality proffesionals in the industry world wide.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Funny that you don't realize these are entirely different administrations. The folks who backed the administration of said abominations, every single one of them, voted AGAINST improving health care. That's a clue for ya. << While it may be totally different administrations X, I have yet to see this new administration do anything to change the Patriot Act. Why do you suppose that is? Also, I hate to tell you this but most of the people that voted for the Health Care Bill backed that abomination of a Patriot Act also. It was very much a bipartisan bill. If I'm not mistaken Obama has a Secretary of Homeland Security also. >> Oh, and cool Tronorail. << Does TDL or TDS do anything like this. Just curious.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> >> Thought this ws suppose to be about the MONORAILS ? << Feel free to jump in at anytime to go back to the original discussion about the OSHA findings. << What a dummy don't you know that this thread was about the blatant, and tacky advertising on the ICONIC WDW Monorail. What a Doe Doe! Wait a minute....isn't that my post? Never mind.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>I'm a little surprised how low the taxi drivers are. If I'm not mistaken becoming a taxi driver in the UK is a very difficult task. I believe they go through a rigorous test, and are some of the most top quality proffesionals in the industry world wide.<<< In London, they do something called "the Knowledge", and they can earn more. But a lot do it as a lifestyle business so they can see their kids. Sure, if someone wants to work all the time, then they can earn more, but I was talking typical. FWIW, a Social Worker is on about £29k-£60k, and you must have a 4 year degree to do that. To become a cabby is much easier.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> The Democrats WERE dead, it took some serious life support (major changes) in order for them to get back in the game. << I must be missing something X. I just don't see any change in the Democratic party. Perhaps the American public finally realized they had a fiscally irresponsible President, and a majority Congress that supported him. I think Americans were ready for a change. The question now becomes did they get that change that they thought they were voting for ot not. I think the truly Independents (not the people that only say they are Independent because it sounds good) will answer that question in the coming elections. >> Now, WILL we see changes from the right wingers? No evidence of that thus far. Nothing has changed since the 08 election except for the volume and increased pitch of the vitriol. << Funny how somebody from the left sees it. I see a dramatic switch in trying to go back to the base principals of the GOP, and get away from the Bush philosophy. We shall see.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Wow, that Socialist system you guys have over there sounds pretty fair, reasonable, and effective! << GOSH X, I never would have believed you felt that way! I almost feel like quoting Margaret Thatcher here.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Please don't, that woman makes me want to vomit almost as much as W or Reagan. Difference is, I had to work with her once, quite challenging.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> In London, they do something called "the Knowledge", and they can earn more. But a lot do it as a lifestyle business so they can see their kids. Sure, if someone wants to work all the time, then they can earn more, but I was talking typical. FWIW, a Social Worker is on about £29k-£60k, and you must have a 4 year degree to do that. To become a cabby is much easier. << Interesting. From what I read I was lead to believe it was a much more difficult job to obtain for Taxi Drivers in the UK. Also while you might still be here, why is it that almost everybody from the UK still uses the British Pound instead of Euro. This is not a critisisim, Im just curious. Do they still use Francs in France, and Deutsch Marks in Germany. AND why can't I make a £ sign in this forum witout using cut, and paste.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Ok, let's go. The UK is a part of the European Union, but is not a part of the European Monetary Fund. The arrangement is a little like this. Imagine if NAFTA (the North American equivelent to the EU) wanted to have a single currency and Mexico insisted it wanted to retain the Peso. That's the situ. The UK was a part of the ERM (Exchange Rate Mechanism) but during the last recession, the UK withdrew (this was a rule set to keep currencies in step with one another in preparation for the introduction of the Euro). So when the Euro came in a deposed the other European currencies, the £ remained in the UK (whereas Ireland is on the Euro rather than the Punt). It is a very political issue. Personally I wish we did have the Euro, and it is likely the economy would be more robust. However, I am very much in the minority. Many Brits are worried it would erode national sovereignty (Scotland has their own notes a.k.a. bills, but they are still the same £ values and are legal tender throughout the UK, though some stupid shop keepers refuse to accept them). There has been talk of running an electorial referendum, but this has yet to transpire. AS for why you have to cut and paste the £ sign (and probably the € sign too), is that each region has a different layout of keyboard that designed for local lexicons and currencies (e.g. in France and Germany, they do not have QWERTY keyboards - keyboards are set up based on how the old press men used to have their blocks laid out according to the most used and least used letters within language - symbols are governed by similar conventions (though you can configure your keyboard hot keys to bring up these symbols using windows definitions).
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Please don't, that woman makes me want to vomit almost as much as W or Reagan. Difference is, I had to work with her once, quite challenging. << You're a committed left wing liberal Dave. I would expect you to feel that way. While being a conservative, I myself admire her, and feel she ranks right up there with the best of the British PMs. I also really liked Tony Blair, and he was far from conservative. Brown, I just haven't figured out yet. he is a Scotsman, and probably drinks Tennent's!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo You never had to live under her horrid tyranny or see how far backwards the UK went. It was god awful. So many people lost their homes. And although technically this recession is worse, the one under Thatcher had far worse implications for the common man. Plus she drove so many things underground, and standards in always everything went down in her reign. Add in the huge expenditure in defence, most of the equipment was past their sell by dates. So many other things and so little time. I need to keep my BP down.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Ok, let's go. The UK is a part of the European Union, but is not a part of the European Monetary Fund. The arrangement is a little like this. Imagine if NAFTA (the North American equivelent to the EU) wanted to have a single currency and Mexico insisted it wanted to retain the Peso. That's the situ. The UK was a part of the ERM (Exchange Rate Mechanism) but during the last recession, the UK withdrew (this was a rule set to keep currencies in step with one another in preparation for the introduction of the Euro). So when the Euro came in a deposed the other European currencies, the £ remained in the UK (whereas Ireland is on the Euro rather than the Punt). It is a very political issue. Personally I wish we did have the Euro, and it is likely the economy would be more robust. However, I am very much in the minority. Many Brits are worried it would erode national sovereignty (Scotland has their own notes a.k.a. bills, but they are still the same £ values and are legal tender throughout the UK, though some stupid shop keepers refuse to accept them). There has been talk of running an electorial referendum, but this has yet to transpire. << Thanks for the wealth of knowledge. I understand now. >> AS for why you have to cut and paste the £ sign (and probably the € sign too), is that each region has a different layout of keyboard that designed for local lexicons and currencies (e.g. in France and Germany, they do not have QWERTY keyboards - keyboards are set up based on how the old press men used to have their blocks laid out according to the most used and least used letters within language - symbols are governed by similar conventions (though you can configure your keyboard hot keys to bring up these symbols using windows definitions << I understand the difference in keyboards. I guess I really didn't make myself clear. If sending an e-mail, I can hold the alt key down, and type in 0163 on the numeric key board. When you release you get the British Pound sign. If I do that in this forum I get nothing.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Aha, interesting. I wonder if it is down to any validation rules. Then again, people get the hearts and notes and things.
Originally Posted By MPierce For the € it is alt 0128. That's what I get in this forum. It just doesn't seem to work on the Pound.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Maybe a sign for the future. The Pound is doing really badly on the international market right now.
Originally Posted By MPierce I'm curious if the alt 0163, and alt 0128, will work on your keyboard? Probably not, since you already have it as a symbol on your keyboard.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Maybe a sign for the future. The Pound is doing really badly on the international market right now. << I haven't checked on the exchange rate in a while. I know there for a while the Pound against the dollar, made a trip across the pond a great deal. Gold, and the Renminbi is probably the only thing doing any good right now.
